Valve, however, is offering an alternative, and it comes in the form of Raspberry Pi. The Steam Link app continues to live on in mobile devices and smart TVs, so it's not the end of days, but this doesn't offer the same latency-mitigating clout as Ethernet-wired hardware. The simple black micro PCs designed to let you play games in the living room - or anywhere else in the house away from your gaming rig - is sold out everywhere and it seems Valve has no plans to produce more. While the company has said SteamOS and Steam Machines aren’t dead, those products along with Steam Link have failed to garner more than niche interest.Steam Link boxes are no more. The move away from dedicated hardware coincides with Valve’s waning support for SteamOS and Steam Machines. At the time, Valve stated that it would continue supporting the existing Steam Link hardware along with the software versions of Steam Link.

The Raspberry Pi beta comes a few weeks after Valve announced that Steam Link hardware production has stopped. Most comments on the announcement thread have been positive, suggesting the Raspberry Pi hardware is more than capable of handling the app.

Steam Link for Raspberry Pi is fully featured, similar to Steam Link software on PC, Mac, Linux, and Android. Valve started the public Raspberry Pi Steam Link beta on Monday, December 3 after a pinned thread on the Steam Community forums announced it.

Valve also recently ended production of official Steam Link hardware. The Raspberry Pi Steam Link beta is available now for Pi 3 and 3 B+ systems running Raspbian Stretch. Valve released a beta version of its game-streaming Steam Link for the Raspberry Pi.

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